Freeview all over the house !

sunny2004

Hi,
I bought a aldi or lidl, ok just checked its a Lidl satallite system, all is good, I have it connected in the attic to the cable running to my living room and all is good.
On a side note the dish supplied by lidl bent in the wind and had to be replaced with a mest one !


Now I wish to extend it to the bedroom, I assume I will need another box, now here I start worrying, what I should do, In my attic I have 4 lines running to different rooms all not connected with the exception of the one running to the living room !
Where do I start ? what kit do I need ? where can I get it as I dont want to but from lidl and get more dishes lol

Any help at all would be appreciated !

Pal

You probably need to start by asking the question properly.

You do not have FREEVIEW.
That's a UK thing. Nothing to do with satallite (sic).

What you do have is a free-to-air satellie receiver. At least if its a Lidl job, then that's what it is.

Good move to get a mest (sic) dish.

Now you need to put a new LNB on your dish. Thats the thing on the end of the arm. You need a multi one. Called a quad LNB. have a look at satellite.ie

Then you need to run cable (CT100 spec) from the LNB to each room.

lastly you need a free-to-air satellie receiver for each TV.

Pal

oops double post

mustang68

Whats a "mest"?

5h4mr0(k

mustang68 wrote:

Whats a "mest"?

A mesh mast?

sunny2004

Sorry its a typo..
Its a mesh or dish with holes in it so the wind blows through it !
Cheers for the help and the education !
Looking into it as we speak !

watty

The wind does not "blow through" much. The wind loading on a mesh satellite dish can be higher. They exist because they are cheaper to make and cheaper to ship.

But they are more fragile and rust more easily.

Even a MMDS dish, at certain angles to wind has the same wind load as solid, only slightly less straight on due to turbulence.

You need a dish with fence wire sized holes to have a low wind loading and that will only work at TV frequencies.

sunny2004

Well if that is the case then the dish shipped by lidl must have been made of paper as it bent and the new mesh one is perfectly fine !

Smeagol

Now you need to put a new LNB on your dish. Thats the thing on the end of the arm. You need a multi one. Called a quad LNB. have a look at satellite.ie
Then you need to run cable (CT100 spec) from the LNB to each room.
lastly you need a free-to-air satellie receiver for each TV.

Or, if you also want terrestrial in each room, get a quattro lnb + 5/4 multiswitch + four TV/Radio/Sat outputs.

watty

None of them cope with getting walked or or abused by a folk lift!

sunny2004

Smeagol wrote:

Or, if you also want terrestrial in each room, get a quattro lnb + 5/4 multiswitch + four TV/Radio/Sat outputs.

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I looked on satallite.ie, they seem to have units (lnb?) with four cable connectors coming out of one unit, in addition they have what I can only explain as an array of lnb? as in 4 in a line...
I sent them an email explaining what I am trying to do...

So the plan is to buy a new kit, new disk, (old one to be used in the den) 4 by lnb ?? and four boxes... ? I think

5h4mr0(k

watty wrote:

None of them cope with getting walked or or abused by a folk lift!

Walked on by a forklift? You must have been watching Transformers Watty!

Tony

You need 1 lnb with four outputs IE a quad, an array as you describe is to receive more than 1 satellite IE hotbird and astra

sunny2004 wrote:

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I looked on satallite.ie, they seem to have units (lnb?) with four cable connectors coming out of one unit, in addition they have what I can only explain as an array of lnb? as in 4 in a line...
I sent them an email explaining what I am trying to do...

So the plan is to buy a new kit, new disk, (old one to be used in the den) 4 by lnb ?? and four boxes... ? I think

sunny2004

Thanks tony..
thats the one, the last think i need is an array.. as there is enough sh#t on astra28 without adding 3 others into the mix

cheers..

wil

One dish, one quad lnb, 4 receivers - sounds like quite a shopping list just to extend fta to one bedroom. Do you require the ability to watch 4 different channels in 4 different rooms? I know Astra2 FTA is not too bad for free but I'm not sure it justifies the price of 4 extra receivers. If all you need is the option of reception in den, and alternative reception in livingroom or bedroom have you considered a single extra decent FTA receiver or digibox with rf out to the other rooms via an up cable from living room to attic, distributed via amplifier through your existing cabling to the other rooms.

PS Not that Im the bast typost in the wrrld but there appaers to be quiet a feew typas in tis thresd, had ot reresd a times to understand. Only takes a a few seconds to read edit aand korrect.:)
I rlz tht nw vryn wll crrct my spllng. Hlp, th vwls n my kybrd r nt wrkn:D

sunny2004

wil wrote:

have you considered a single extra decent FTA receiver or digibox with rf out to the other rooms via an up cable from living room to attic, distributed via amplifier through your existing cabling to the other rooms.

I have in fact not considered this, for the simple reason that I have no idea what you are suggesting ! please explain to me and feel free to talk to me like an idiot !

P.S. sorry for the typo's I am in fact doing my best (GOD HELP YOU HAVING TO READ THIS)

Tony

All you need to decide is whether you want to watch different channels on multiple tv's or the same channel on multiple tv's. Think of a satellite receiver as a video, it can only play one movie at a time.

sunny2004 wrote:

I have in fact not considered this, for the simple reason that I have no idea what you are suggesting ! please explain to me and feel free to talk to me like an idiot !

P.S. sorry for the typo's I am in fact doing my best (GOD HELP YOU HAVING TO READ THIS)

wil

Thanks Tony for adding clarity, didnt get a chance over the last few days.
Sunny You are far from being the worst of the typo-ists, God has better things to be doing and as for reading nobodys forcing me. Treatiing you as an idiot would be more likely to prove my own ignorance. We all have to start somewhere.

In your original question you suggested you wanted to extend your Free To Air* satellite to a bedroom with some implication in your title that you might like it in more rooms. (*I find it a little pedantic overzealously correcting people for using the term Freeview when it is obvious to all what is meant).
Thus follows the question to ask yourself - do I need to have different channels in each room (eg kids in living room, wife in bedroom, husband in kitchen;) ) or will same channel in each room simultaneously suffice.(eg want to continue watching that film in bed).

The latter is the simplest and cheapest to achieve as you seem to have much of the cabling existing already.
The rf (aerial) signal from the receiver in the living room could easily be sent via standard aerial cable back in to the attic and relayed through your existing cabling to the other rooms. I suggested a decent receiver such as supplied by satellite.ie as these have an aerial output suitable for such purposes. Many cheap ones dont. A remote extender could be used to control the box from a different room. If you use a digibox you can control it from another room with a similar device often referred to as a "magic eye"